Molecular Analysis of Trypanosome Infections in Algerian Camels.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Surra is an economically important livestock disease in many low- and middle-income countries, including those of Northern Africa. The disease is caused by the biting fly-transmitted subspecies Trypanosoma brucei evansi, which is very closely related to the tsetse-transmitted subspecies T. b. brucei and the sexually transmitted subspecies T. b. equiperdum. At least two phylogenetically distinct groups of T. b. evansi can be distinguished, called type A and type B. These evolved from T. b. brucei independently. The close relationships between the T. brucei subspecies and the multiple evolutionary origins of T. b. evansi pose diagnostic challenges.

Methods

Here we use previously established and newly developed PCR assays based on nuclear and mitochondrial genetic marke

SUBMITTER: Boushaki D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9399045 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature